Incontinental Airlines

By consumerist.comJune 21, 2007

In this video, Continental Airlines blames the river of excrement that passengers endured on a 8-hour international flight on some gloves flushed down the toilet. Eyewitness Collin Brock also snagged a nice picture of a stewardess walking around in a DIY gag-mask [sic]. People, you know that sign with the syringes, towels, cups, cobrasnakes, etc etc going into the toilet? And there’s that big ol red line across them all? Yeah, it’s there for a reason. — BEN POPKEN

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I could be wrong about this, but spending 8-hours sitting next to a river of crap sounds like a good reason for granting passengers a free ticket. If the $500 voucher covers that for everyone, I’d say that’s fair.

Wow.
This reminds me of a trip I made to Italy years ago (out of JFK).
I was soo pissed (pardon the pun) that our flight was delayed for 6 hours because somebody flushed a blanket down one of the toilets.
Looking back now, I’m glad they held us up…

So they can kick a teenage girl off her flight, due to a cough, because the pilot is concerned about the safety of his ‘passengers’. Yet it’s ‘safe’ for the poor bastards in coach to endure 8hours of airborne fecal bacteria?!?! Someone’s got some explaining to do.

Have you EVER seen someone bring latex gloves on a flight? The only ones I’ve seen were on the last remaining cleaning crew who were still on the plane during a short, tight turnaround. They shouldn’t have allowed the passengers to re-board in Shannon since the system was obviously still malfunctioning. Continental could easily have ferried another plane or chartered one from a different company.

it’s not that easy to “ferry” another plane in. The vast majority of their aircraft are in service at any given time. And if they were to “Ferry” an aircraft in, it would have been from Houston or Newark, and would have taken many hours. Plus, they would have had to locate two SPARE crews (good luck on that one), because each crew can only fly for 8 hours per FAA regulations. And it’s not that easy to lease a large aircraft or charter one that quickly, that has the same FAA credentials. So, until you deal in the industry, I’d keep that opinion to yourself ;)

1) They couldn’t “easily” ferry a plane in. If they could, it would’ve taken MANY hours.
2) Then, they would’ve had to locate TWO spare crews ( good luck with that one) because each crew can only fly 8hrs per FAA regulations.
3) They can’t just charter an aircraft of that size on the fly. That too, would have taken MANY hours.

I think the point you’re making about the glove is being missed and important. It sounds like an employee of Continental clogged their own toilet. They must have misread the sign with the syringes, towels, cups, cobrasnakes, etc.